Ignorance can’t be bliss
Mackenzie Murtaugh, Opinions Editor
October 22, 2018
Filed under Opinions
After the UN's report that the Earth will greatly suffer from the devastating effects of climate change if action isn't taken on the gubernatorial level, people want to push the blame onto something other than themselves. We should blame ourselves for the internalized laziness when we have been presented...
One step backward
Evan Sully, Contributing Writer
January 16, 2018
Filed under Nation & World
The outlook of this country’s involvement in environmental policy in 2018 seems very bleak. In 2017, environmental policies took a step backward on past progress that shaped policies protecting the environment on both a domestic and international level. Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection A...
Offshore wind farms and the future of renewable energy
October 3, 2016
Filed under Focus
Offshore wind farms have the potential to blow other sources of energy out of the water. Despite the fact that the Department of Energy estimates that the United States has an offshore wind capacity of four million megawatts of energy, “four times the generating capacity of all U.S. electric power...
The true cost of cheap oil
January 9, 2015
Filed under Opinions
Decline in gas prices excites consumers, but environmental concerns should be considered Read More »...
Rising temperatures, global concerns
September 28, 2014
Filed under Nation & World
Worldwide demonstrations express solidarity, concern about climate change Amid another year of frustration about continuing climate change, throngs of environmental activists congregated throughout the world on Sept. 21 to gather in a series of marches and environmentalist demonstrations referred to as the People’s Climate March. More than 2,700 events took place globa...